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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is New Delhi.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1920s, food fortification emerged as a strategy in the United States to address and prevent the lack of micronutrients in the population’s diet. Specifically, it was discovered in the 1930s and 1940s, that micronutrient deficiency is often linked to specific diseases and syndromes.

Detailed explanation-3: -In India, food fortification began in the 1950s with vegetable oil fortification and salt iodization. In the 2000s, the government introduced fortification of other commodities such as rice and wheat after a 60-year gap between global evidence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fortification as defined by Codex Alimentarius “the addition of one or more essential nutrients to food, whether or not it is normally contained in the food, for the purpose of preventing or correcting a demonstrated deficiencyof one or more nutrients in the population or specific population groups”